Word: commoner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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About 70 Freshman hockey aspirants reported at Smith Halls Common Room yesterday at the initial 1933 hockey meeting of the year. This is considerably more than came out last year for the Freshman sextet...
...York Curb listed 1,227,392 preferred shares and 7,477,392 common shares of Blue Ridge Corp., investment trust sponsored by Harrison Williams and by Goldman, Sachs & Co. As the same date is more memorable as opening day for greatest market crash in history, unfortunate has been Blue Ridge's Curb career. In retrospect, indeed, the history both of Blue Ridge and of Shenandoah Corp., companion investment trust formed by the same interests, appears somewhat ironic. In August, Blue Ridge had announced a policy of exchanging its shares for shares of other corporations, had thus indirectly endorsed such...
Then the Market broke and with it broke Blue Ridge and Shenandoah. Blue Ridge common went from a high of 29⅝ to a low of 3½. Shenandoah went from 39⅜ to 6⅞. Furthermore, the first of the year was rapidly approaching-a significant period at which the Market break would be clearly reflected in investment trusts' reports of operations. Many a market student anticipated a severe January slump in investment trust securities...
Packed in his five carloads of laboratory material were tons of stalks of a common, ubiquitous weed: goldenrod. Goldenrod, announced Inventor Edison, seemed a likely U. S. weed from which to produce the object of his major research in the past two years: Rubber...
Rubber is a complex hydrocarbon. Fundamental in its composition is isoprene. The organic chemist can make isoprene from such common stuffs as turpentine, petroleum, starch, coal tar or acetylene. News of goldenrod as a likely rubber source gave the casual daily press opportunity to picture farmers sneezing as they harvested the autumn-gorgeous weed. But goldenrod pollen is one of the lesser causes of hayfever. Ragweed, more widespread, is the chief cause...